Re: Patches item #1729825 ready to go.

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> > "man bash" => search HISTCONTROL gives several nice options -- some of them
> > you are implementing for gnuplot. Have a look.
> 
> Oh yeah...  The 'ignoreboth' means 'ignorespace:ignoredups'.  The ignore space
> doesn't seem like anything that special or useful; it would mean developing a
> habit of typing space before a command one doesn't want to go on the history
> list.  Is that worth implementing?  The 'ignoredups' will leave out commands
> that are the same as last command, not quite what you originally implemented.
> However, the 'erasedups' is pretty similar, although I think your code stopped
> after the first found duplicate...no difference if one starts from a clean
> history stack.

I think you can let it as is; optionally there could be useful
	set history full|ignoredups|condensed

Then I would prefer the default to be the ignoredups.

> On the surface this sounds worthwhile, but who wants to spend time selectively
> deleting entries from an ephemeral history list?  "Sorry, can't go out
> tonight; got to clean my history list."

It'd be better to edit $HOME/.gnuplot_history

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